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Order of Worship
Opening Words
One: Who are we and what are we called to do?
All: To create a world where every person is radically affirmed and barriers between people become bridges of inclusion, justice, and spirituality.
Prelude
Shared by Travis Meyers
Welcome and Announcements
Rev. Ken Heintzelman
Singing Our Faith ~ "There is Room for All"
There is room for all
in the shadow of God’s wing;
There is room for all sheltered in God’s love.
And I rejoice and sing,
“My refuge and my rock in whom I trust.”
There is room for all. There is room for all.
Repeat
The Peace
Led by Rev. Ken Heintzelman
Let us greet each other as a sign of God's peace and of our shared friendship.
Singing Our Faith ~ "Free To Be You and Me"
There’s a land that I see where the children are free.
And I say it ain’t far to this land from where we are.
Take my hand, come with me where the children are free.
Come with me, take my hand, and we’ll live...
Chorus
In a land where the river runs free.
In a land through the green country.
In a land to a shining sea.
In a land where the horses run free.
And you and me are free to be, you and me.
I see a land, bright and clear and the time’s comin’ near
When we’ll live in this land, you and me, hand in hand.
Take my hand, come along, lend your voice to my song.
Come along, take my hand, sing a song...
Chorus
Every boy in this land grows to be his own man.
In this land, every girl grows to be her own woman.
Take my hand, come with me, where the children are free.
Come with me, take my hand, and we’ll run...
Chorus
Opening Prayer and The Prayer of Jesus
Sung Responsively
Our Creator in heaven
Hallowed be your name.
Your kingdom come.
Your will be done, on earth as in heaven.
Give us today our daily bread,
Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those
Who trespass against us.
Save us from the time of trial,
And deliver us from evil.
For the kingdom, the power
And the glory are yours
Now and forever. Amen
The Word About Life for Today - Matthew 15
Shared by Rev. Ken Heintzelman
Then he called the crowd to him and said to them, ‘Listen and understand: it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles.’ Then the disciples approached and said to him, ‘Do you know that the Pharisees took offense when they heard what you said?’ He answered, ‘Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted. Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind. And if one blind person guides another, both will fall into a pit.’ But Peter said to him, ‘Explain this parable to us.’ Then he said, ‘Are you also still without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth enters the stomach, and goes out into the sewer? But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this is what defiles. For out of the heart come evil intentions, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, false witness, and slander. These are what defile a person, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile.’
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